Today began an entire week of vacation! Yahoo! Let me start Thanksgiving by being thankful for all of the holidays we lucky teachers get. :)
Instead of puttering away at projects around the house, we decided to take a real excursion and go check out the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Since its grand re-opening in July, we've been kind of afraid to face the crowds there, but it was fairly manageable today. As an added bonus, we got to do the exploring with some of our best buddies.
The new building was designed to be a model of environmental friendliness, so it's about the greenest structure you can imagine, and then some. The roof is literally green. It's a living roof, covered with native plants (and solar panels). We loved the whole concept, and enjoyed hanging out on the roof, but couldn't get past the eerie similarity to the land where the Teletubbies live.
To cap off the day, we soaked up some super-rare SF sun in a fabulous playground in Golden Gate Park. Check out the old-school concrete slides:
Child-centered days like this don't happen often enough. We got to spend the afternoon watching the kids slide, laugh, and slide some more, after hours of searching for camouflaged insects and lizards. I'm very thankful. 
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